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by kjander79 1641 days ago
At the risk of this comment being equivalent to many other "this doesn't belong on HN" comments:

This is almost to the level of doxxing. Please consider removing, or at least changing the headline (nothing intrinsically wrong with highlighting comments from an interesting account).

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Is it doxxing? Seems like people knew who he was at the time, and he was writing about himself in a fairly informal way.

I am annoyed, however, that for some reason you can still comment on these posts, which is a shame because it's like scribbling on Anne Frank's diary - even if well intended it's fairly tactless.

As soon i as i read "private" i cringed

If it was private. That was for a reason. The man had an awesome public persona and shared that with millions freely.

He clearly also wanted to participate as a regular human

> As soon i as i read "private" i cringed

Me too, considering there is nothing really "private" about posting on a public forum.

> He clearly also wanted to participate as a regular human

And he did that for a while, but he's now resting in peace, I doubt us reading his Reddit comments gonna change much about that.

Is Rolling Stone "doxxing" him here with this article?

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anthon...